I was more than a little surprised to hear Gov. John Hickenlooper’s ad on the radio claiming that we haven’t had contamination from fracking. Why is he partnering with the gas industry? And why is he doing a “public service announcement” that sweeps the facts under the rug? It’s bad enough to see him take sides on a really controversial issue. What’s worse is that he seems to be willfully ignoring the evidence of dozens of cases of pollution since 2008. I’m surprised that the governor is so cavalier with the facts and so anxious to take sides in the fracking debate.

Laura Wright, Denver

This letter was published in the March 8 edition.

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>>What’s worse is that he seems to be willfully ignoring the evidence of dozens of cases of pollution since 2008. I’m surprised that the governor is so cavalier with the facts and so anxious to take sides in the fracking debate.<>So why did the EPA announce Thursday in a draft report that CHEMICALS “LIKELY” ASSOCIATED WITH FRACKING WERE FOUND AT A DRILLING SITE NEAR PAVILION, WYO.? Big Green activists who are determined to stop fracking will loudly proclaim from every media rooftop in coming days that there is now “proof” that fracking endangers drinking water across America. Here’s what these ideologically blinded zealots won’t tell you:

The next two sentences in the EPA announcement quoted in the opening paragraph state: “EPA also re-tested private and public drinking water wells in the community. The samples were consistent with CHEMICALS IDENTIFIED IN EARLIER EPA RESULTS RELEASED IN 2010 AND ARE GENERALLY BELOW ESTABLISHED HEALTH AND SAFETY STANDARDS.” By “below,” the EPA means that chemicals in the groundwater do not exceed acceptable health and safety standards….

….The facts remain as they were stated by Jackson in May: The EPA has not yet documented a single case in which fracking caused groundwater contamination.